Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship: A NovelBell & Daldy, 1867 - 570 pages |
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Abbé accustomed acquainted actors amongst amusement answered answered Wilhelm anxious apartment appeared astonishment attention Aurelia Baroness beautiful became become bosom castle character charming cheerful child circumstances commenced conceal conduct considered continued conversation Count Countess cried Wilhelm delight door dress Elmira engaged enjoy entertained exclaimed expressed eyes fancy father favour feel Felix felt Goethe Hamlet hand happy harper hastened heart honour hope inquired Jarno lady Laertes laudanum length letter looked Lothario Lydia Madame Melina manner Mariana marriage means menced ment Mignon mind mother Narcissus Natalia nature never night noble object observed occasion once performance person Philina physician play pleasure possessed present racter rapture received rendered replied rope dancers scarcely secret seemed Serlo silent soon soul spirit strange stranger talents theatre Theresa thing thought tion took Werner whilst whole wholly wish young youth
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Page 281 - I'll leave you till night. You are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord! Exeunt [ROSENCRANTZ and GUILDENSTERN.] Ham. Ay, so, God buy ye. — Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Page 227 - The time is out of joint : — 0, cursed spite, That ever I was born to set it right ! — Nay, come, let 's go together.
Page 281 - What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion, That I have?
Page 227 - A lovely, pure, noble, and highly moral being, without the strength of mind which forms a hero, sinks beneath a load which it cannot bear and must not renounce. He views every duty as holy, but this one is too much for him. He is called upon to do what is impossible; not impossible in itself, but impossible to him. And as he turns and winds and torments himself, still advancing and retreating, ever reminded and remembering his purpose, he almost loses sight of it completely, without ever recovering...
Page 70 - From his heart, its native soil, springs up the lovely flower of wisdom ; and if others, while waking, dream, and are pained with fantastic delusions from their every sense, he passes the dream of life like one awake,. and the strangest of incidents is to him a part both of the past and of the future.
Page 228 - Of her there cannot much be said," he answered; "for a few master-strokes complete her character. The whole being of Ophelia floats in sweet and ripe sensation. Kindness for the prince, to whose hand she may aspire, flows so spontaneously, her tender heart obeys its impulses so unresistingly, that both father and brother are afraid; both give her warning harshly and directly. Decorum, like the thin lawn upon her bosom, cannot hide the soft, still movements of her heart; it on the contrary betrays...
Page 538 - It is the appointment," said he, "of the Man who prepared this silent abode, that each new tenant of it shall be introduced with a solemnity. After him, the builder of this mansion, the founder of this establishment, we have next brought a young stranger hither : and thus already does this little space contain two altogether different victims of the rigorous, arbitrary, and inexorable Deathgoddess.
Page 227 - An oak tree is planted in a costly vase, which should only have borne beautiful flowers in its bosom; the roots expand and the vase is shattered. "A lovely, pure, noble, and highly moral being, without the strength of mind which forms a hero, sinks beneath a load which it cannot bear and must not renounce.
Page 56 - I was ten years old at the decease of my grandfather, and it grieved me exceedingly to be obliged to witness the sale of so many beautiful objects." "But your father realized a large sum of money by them." " You know all about it then ? " " O yes ; I visited those treasures whilst they were yet in your house. Your grandfather was not only a collector, but a person well acquainted with art. In his earlier happier years he had been in Italy, and had brought back many treasures with him from that country,...
Page 5 - Saul hath slain his thousands, but David his tens of thousands !' The giant's head was carried before his little conqueror and he received the King's daughter as his bride ; but I felt vexed amid all my joy, that the successful prince was such a dwarf. For pursuant to the common idea of the great Goliath, and the little David, they had both been carefully constructed of characteristic dimensions. Tell me, I beg of you, what has become of those puppets ? I have promised to shew them to a friend whom...